Predicting the Map of Requirements for Long-Term Data Platform Relevance

TOCMendeleev’s GeniusFramework for Projecting Data NeedsUsing Projections for Long-Term Platform AlignmentWhy Data Platforms Become IrrelevantMapping the Unknown Needs: Vacant SpotsTranslating the Framework into ArchitecturePlatform Decoupling is Non-negotiableData Products as the Interface b/w Platform & Business NeedInterfaces at Different Levels of AbstractionThe Framework in ActionWhere the Platform Learns to BendMendeleev’s GeniusWhen Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the periodic table in 1869, he did something extraordinary: designed for the unknown. His brilliance didn’t lie in cataloguing the 63 known elements, but in foreseeing what must exist beyond them.He left deliberate gaps, placeholders for the undiscovered entities, trusting the coherence of his framework more than the completeness of his data.Years later, when gallium, scandium, and germanium filled those spaces exactly as he predicted, the framework itself was validated.First version of the Periodic Table in 1869 | Source: EDN NetworkComplete Periodic Table of Elements | Source: ThoughtCo That is the essence of architectural foresight.